Office napping climbs out from under the desk and into high-tech pods
Office napping climbs out from under the desk and into high-tech pods
- July 5, 2018
- Sara Mednick, cog sci, in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, The Star, July 5, 2018
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“There’s kind of a badge of honor for how little you sleep in this world,” said Sara
Mednick, an associate professor of cognitive science at the University of California
at Irvine and author of a book on the benefits of napping. “The idea of napping in
front of people while they’re all working really hard — there’s not a lot of respect
for that.”
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